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Secretary General

The Secretary General is appointed by the Executive Committee. S/He is responsible for the administration of the association, and directs the Secretariat. In accordance with the instructions given by the President and/or the Executive Committee, the Secretary General acts as IPA's spokesperson at meetings and in dealings with external organisations. S/He organises and undertakes the representational and liaison activities necessary for securing support for and the implementation of the IPA's policies and the achievement and recognition of its objectives.

IPA's current Secretary General is José Borghino who is assisted by Project and Office Manager in charge of the projects coordination, communication and a smooth office running.

Membership

National book and journal publishers associations can participate in the work of IPA as "Regular Members". International publishers organisations with specialised publishing interests as well as international regional publishers associations may become IPA "Associate Members". Individual publishing houses can only become IPA members under limited circumstances. For more about IPA Membership and the different membership categories, please click here.

Current membership includes some 86 publishers' organisations from approximately 71 countries. This includes the international regional publisher associations from Latin America (GIE), the Arab countries (APU), Africa (APNET), and Europe (FEP), and French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa (AFRILIVRES), as well as specialist publishers associations such as the Association of University Presses, the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and the International Federation of Scholarly Publishers (IFSP).

How to become an IPA Member?

In principle, IPA membership is open to national, and international regional or specialist publishers' associations which:

Share IPA's Objects, and actively promote and defend publishers' interests; and
Conform with IPA's Statutes, and are themselves based on voluntary membership and the principles of democratic self-organisation of publishers; and
Pay their annual subscription to the IPA Secretariat; and
Undertake to give effect in their respective countries to the resolutions and recommendations passed by the IPA General Assembly and to report to the IPA Secretary General on the steps taken and the results achieved.
IPA distinguishes between three categories of membership.

You can read the membership elegibility criteria here and download the application form here.

Full Membership

Full Membership may be granted to national publishers associations representing to the fullest extent possible the publishers of their country. Full Members pay an annual subscription determined for each Full Member by the General Assembly from time to time. Full Members take part in the work of the Association.

Associate membership

Associate Membership may be granted to international regional publishers' organisations and international publishers organisations with specialised publishing interests.

Application Procedure

We kindly ask all to complete a basic questionnaire on their activities. Together with the elegibility criteria, the information provided by the applicant association in this questionnaire will help the IPA Membership Committee and General Assembly to form a view as to whether your Association fulfils IPA's criteria for a given membership category. The IPA General Assembly decides, at its discretion, whether or not to accept any given application.

The application process itself, which leads up to the request for membership addressed to the General Assembly, is administered by the IPA Secretariat and will depend on the particular circumstances of each applicant. IPA generally asks applicants to make themselves available for a personal meeting at an international publishing event, e.g. during a major international book fair, or the next IPA Copyright Congress, to discuss the aspects raised in the questionnaire.

Should you have any question regarding IPA or the application process, please contact the IPA Secretariat at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Structure

Article Index

Secretary General

Membership

How to become an IPA Member?

Full Membership

Associate membership

Application Procedure

List of IPA Members 2020-21

IPA Members

Union of Iraqi Publishers(No website available)

Association des Editeurs de Côte d’Ivoire (No website available)

Union mauritanienne pour l'edition et la distribution (No website available)

L'Union professionelle des éditeurs du Maroc (No website available)

Russian Book UnionOktyabr'skaya Ulitsa, 4к2127018, Moscow,

The Somali Publishers Association(No website available)

Tunisian Publishers Association (no website available)

Union of Iraqi Publishers
(No website available)

Association des Editeurs de Côte d’Ivoire
(No website available)

L'Union professionelle des éditeurs du Maroc
(No website available)

Russian Book Union
Oktyabr'skaya Ulitsa, 4к2
127018, Moscow,

The Somali Publishers Association
(No website available)

Tunisian Publishers Association
(no website available)